Decoding the Stories of Our Ancestors pt. 2

by Alex Taylor

In my previous post, I discussed the evidence and arguments that led to the widespread acceptance of the “Recent Out-of-Africa” theory of human origins. Anthropologists in the 19th and 20th centuries defined the scope of the questions about our ancestry  – Where did we originate? How long have we existed as a species? – and began to answer them using fossil evidence. However, …